The World Wide Web turns 25

On March 12, 1989, British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee proposed a new way of accessing information on a network of computers. He was working at the European research facility CERN and thought the World Wide Web would make it easier for scientists to keep track of complex projects with colleagues dispersed around the world, but his idea revolutionized more than academia. Within a few years of putting the software in the public domain, everything from commerce to education underwent a massive transformation, the effects of which we are still living through 25 years later.